Open Source Rename It AlternativesFile Renamers and other similar apps like Rename It

The best open source alternative to Rename It is Ant Renamer. If that doesn't suit you, our users have ranked more than 50 alternatives to Rename It and 18 is open source so hopefully you can find a suitable replacement. Other interesting open source alternatives to Rename It are Rename Master, KRename, F2 and Simplest File Renamer.

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  1. Ant Renamer icon
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    Free, open-source tool for bulk renaming files and folders, with Unicode support, rule-based modifications, EXIF and MP3 tag integration, regular expressions, case changes, extension edits, randomization, list input, preview of changes, and no content alteration.

    84 Ant Renamer alternatives

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    • Windows
    • PortableApps.com
    • Wine
     
  2. Rename Master icon
     19 likes

    Rename Master is a freeware utility designed to rename multiple files with a just few clicks. Anyone that has worked with websites, file archives, or collections of music, videos, or pictures has probably spent way too much time renaming hundreds of files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  3. KRename icon
     20 likes

    KRename is a powerful batch renamer for KDE. It allows you to easily rename hundreds or even more files in one go. The filenames can be created by parts of the original filename, numbering the files or accessing hundreds of informations about the file, like creation date or Exif...

    78 KRename alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Platforms

    • Linux
    • Flathub
     
  4. F2 icon
     12 likes
    • F2 helps you organise your filesystem through batch renaming so that your files and directories can have a consistent naming scheme.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application types

    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  5. Rename your files directly or with your favorite text editor, making use of all your 1337 keyboard shortcuts.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  6. PowerRenameExt is a cross-platform bulk renaming tool conceived as a powered-up version of Microsoft's PowerRename tool (part of the PowerToys suite), with extra added functionality such as the ability to use functions in order to compute the replacements, which in turn...

    52 PowerRenameExt alternatives

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

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    Platforms

    • Mac
    • Windows
    • Linux
     
  7. pyRenamer icon
     16 likes

    pyRenamer is a batch renamer for GTK desktops. With pyRenamer you can change the name of several files at the same time easily.

    • You can use patterns to rename files.
    • You can use search & replace to rename files.
    • You can use common substitutions.
    • You can manually ren.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

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    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  8. Siren icon
     12 likes

    The differential of this program is that it can extract information from audio (tags), images (EXIF and IPTC info), video, and many other file types, and use this information when renaming the files.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application types

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  9. GPRename icon
     12 likes

    GPRename is a complete batch renamer for files and directories and is licensed under the terms of the GNU General Public Licence version 3.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Linux
     
  10. RegexRenamer icon
     6 likes

    RegexRenamer is a powerful but simple user-friendly graphical tool used to batch rename files using regular expressions. A regular expression (or regex) is simply text that contains special characters that together defines a pattern that can be used to match text, in this case...

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source

    Application type

    Alerts

    • Discontinued

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
  11. A File Renamer App featuring a difference display before and after the change for Windows, available on Microsoft Store.

    Cost / License

    • Free
    • Open Source (MIT)

    Application type

    Platforms

    • Windows
     
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